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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2024 |
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In today's newsletter: Uncertainty reigns in a presidential election closer than it has been ever before. Trump vows to deport millions, but builders say it would drive up home costs. And workplace allegations against MrBeast spotlight workplace culture problems on YouTuber sets. Here's what to know today. |
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The tough truth for anxious voters in November’s election is that no one can predict the future – not even political strategist James Carville. Carville, who was stopped on the street by worried New Yorkers regarding the outcome of the election, had nothing for the group. “They firmly believed that I had some kind of secret knowledge,” said Carville. “It’s the hardest thing in the world to tell someone who thinks you’re omnipotent that you’re really not.” Just weeks before Election Day, the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is deadlocked, with polls showing razor-thin margins in battleground states. NBC News’ latest poll shows the race split exactly 48% - 48%, and the story is the same in other polls and polling averages, with Quinnipiac University pollster Tim Malloy saying the race “can’t get much closer.” A whole industry has emerged to filter through the data of complex probabilistic mathematical formulas to predict the outcome of an election. National politics reporter Alex Seitz-Wald digs into the numbers – and past results – to explain how this election is truly closer than ones before. Read the full story here. |
➡️ Kamala Harris’ campaign posted a video that appeared to show Donald Trump nodding off at a campaign event, pushing a new line of attack that the former president is too "exhausted" to run for office. |
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Former President Donald Trump’s pledge to “launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” would hamstring construction firms already facing labor shortages and push record home prices higher, say industry leaders, contractors and economists. Trump hasn’t detailed how his proposed “whole of government” effort to remove up to 20 million people — far more than the nearly 11 million undocumented population — would work, but he has made it central to his housing pitch. The Republican nominee claims mass deportations would free up homes for U.S. citizens. Homebuilders doubt that Trump would deliver on his promise. “You’d lose so many people that you couldn’t put a crew together to frame a house,” says Stan Marek, CEO of the Marek Family of Companies, a Texas-based specialty subcontracting firm. The construction sector employs an estimated 1.5 million undocumented workers, or 13% of its total workforce — a larger share than any other, according to data the Pew Research Center provided to NBC News. Marek, who has advocated for more ways for undocumented people to work legally in construction, says that reforms are decades overdue. While some contractors dismiss Trump’s plan as political rhetoric, many say they can’t afford to lose more people from an immigrant-dependent workforce that is still short of tens of thousands of people. |
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Since Oct. 8, 2023, the day after Hamas launched its terror attacks on Israel, Hezbollah has been firing rockets and other projectiles into northern Israel, in solidarity with the Palestinian militant group. For months, as the pair traded tit-for-tat attacks, more than 60,000 people were displaced from their homes in northern Israel, according to government tallies — and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli ministers cited this as the reason for launching a military campaign into southern Lebanon last month. More than 2,300 people, including 127 children have been killed in Lebanon. And in the Lebanese Christian village of Aitou, where Hezbollah didn’t usually have a presence, an airstrike Monday devastated the community. A dead baby inside a destroyed pickup truck. Toddler clothing and books shredded. Villas and homes reduced to rubble. Just last week, the area “was calm; everything was quiet,” resident Illy Edwan told NBC News. What was once a region of hilly olive groves and winding sea-view roads, now shows a heartbreaking snippet of everyday life. Read more on the Middle East: Hamas’ leader Yahya Sinwar’s death is a win for Israel, but many Palestinians are proud of his defiant last stand. Despite the boost for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Yahya Sinwar’s death, many are wondering what his next move will be. A drone strike was launched from Lebanon towards Netanyahu's house in the town of Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, on Saturday morning.
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More younger women are getting breast cancer and doctors are trying to understand why. Rates of breast cancer in women under 50 have increased more than 15% in the last two decades, a rise that is almost entirely driven by an increase in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, a tumor subtype that needs the hormone estrogen to spread. Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer is the most common type among all age groups. Many factors are likely behind the increase, obesity, alcohol consumption, genetics and some hormonal birth control. Some doctors suspect the trend is related to people getting their periods earlier and having their first baby later. When a woman starts menstruating, her ovaries release estrogen and progesterone, which can both play a role in increasing a woman’s risk for hormone-sensitive subtypes of breast cancer. |
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- Joseph Malinowski, who gained fame riding out Hurricane Helene and Milton on his 20-foot sailboat, was arrested in Florida.
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MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is the biggest YouTuber in the world, but he has had a tumultuous time trying to safely bring his outrageous stunts to television. At least five contestants on Donaldson's upcoming Amazon Prime Video show "Beast Games" sued him over claims that he fostered an unsafe working environment. I set out to understand the gap in professionalism and safety on set between digital creators like MrBeast and more traditional entertainment productions. Here's what I found. — Daysia Tolentino, culture and trends reporter |
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